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Gonds of Deogarh

The Gonds of Deogarh were a Gond royal house that ruled large parts of the Vidarbha region and parts of present-day India's southern Madhya Pradesh. Their Kingdom consisted of the area which later became the Nagpur Kingdom. They made Nagpur region a prosperous and plentiful kingdom, founding the city of Nagpur and building further infrastructure. However, internal bickering led to their decline and they were practically made state pensioneries by the Maratha general Raghoji I Bhonsle in the 1743.

Establishment
The Gauli princes were the predecessors to the Gond house of Deogarh, ruling for 70 years from 1472 to 1542. The Gond dynasty of Deogarh was founded by a Gond named Jatba. Originally, the Gond house of Devagad hailed from Haraya or Harayagad, but later on it was shifted to Devagad about 24 miles from Haraya under Jatba. ==Peak==
Peak
The Gond kingdom of Deogarh reached its peak under the capable leadership of Bakht Buland Shah and his successor Chand Sultan. ==Decline==
Decline
After Chand Sultan's death in 1739, an illegitimate son of Bakht Buland Shah. Rebellion of Raghunath Singh Raghunath Singh, the diwan of the Deogarh ruler, conspired along with Nilkanth Shah, the Gond ruler of Chandrapur to overthrow Raghuji Bhonsla's rule. Raghuji in 1748, seeking respite from the Bengal campaign invaded Deogarh and killed Raghunath Singh. He then completely took over the administration of Deogarh, making Burhan Shah a state pensionary. He next proceeded against Nilkanth Shah of Chanda and defeated him. Nilkanth Shah had to sign a treaty with him, dated 1749 A.D. This treaty rendered the king almost powerless, and when he rebelled against Raghoji, he was defeated with ease imprisoned him permanently in the Ballalpur fort. Hence the last attempts to overthrow the Marathas of Nagpur ended. Titular rulers under the Marathas and British Raja Burhan Shah was succeeded by Rahman Shah. He was succeeded by Suleiman Shah, a minor, his nephew and adopted son, succeeded him, just two years before the death of the last Bhonsle king. Suleiman Shah was staunchly loyal to the British government, "he was a most humane and generous landlord and a just yet a merciful magistrate". He died on 15 April 1885. ==Relations with the Mughals==
Relations with the Mughals
In 1564, Akbar's general Khwaja Abdul Majid Asaf Khan had attacked Panna and made it a feudatory state. Then he attacked & defeated Garha-Katanga ruled by Rani Durgavati and made it also a feudatory state with reduced boundaries. However, he did not invade Deogarh and treated it as a border semi-independent state. He was satisfied with Deogarh accepting his suzerainty. The Mughal governors of the province allowed the Deogarh rulers to rule of their territory on payment of yearly tribute. It is said that Akbar visited Deogarh during Jatba's reign. The Ain-i-Akbari by Abul Fazl says that Jatba possessed 2,000 horses, 50,000 foot soldiers and 100 elephants Maharaja Jatba visited the Mughal emperor Jahangir in 1616. ==List of rulers==
List of rulers
Jatba (1580–1620) • Kok Shah (c. 1620 – 1640) • Kesari Shah (1640 - 1657) • Gorakh Shah (1657 - 1669) • Direct Mughal rule (1669 - 1686) • Bakht Buland Shah (1686–1706) • Chand Sultan (1706–1739) • Wali Shah • Burhan Shah and Akbar Shah Titular rulers • Burhan Shah () • Rahman Shah • Suleiman Shah (1851 - 15 April 1885) • Azam Shah (1956) ==References==
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